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Does gender of firm ownership matter? Female entrepreneurs and the gender pay gap

Kritikos, Alexander S.; Maliranta, Mika; Nippala, Veera; … - 2024

We examine how the gender of business-owners is related to the wages paid to female relative to male employees working in their firms. Using Finnish register data and employing firm fixed effects, we find that the gender pay gap is - starting from a gender pay gap of 11 to 12 percent - two to...

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Job Satisfaction, Structure of Working Environment and Firm Size

Tansel, Aysit - 2022

Employees' wellbeing is important to the firms. Analysis of job satisfaction may give insight into various aspect of labor market behavior, such as worker productivity, absenteeism and job turn over. Little empirical work has been done on the relationship between structure of working environment...

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Wage Effects of Educational Mismatch According to Workers’ Origin: The Role of Demographics and Firm Characteristics

Jacobs, Valentine; Rycx, François; Volral, Mélanie - 2021

This paper analyses the wage effects of educational mismatch by workers’ origin using a sizeable, detailed matched employer-employee dataset for Belgium. Relying on a fine-grained approach to measuring educational mismatch, the results show that over-educated workers, regardless of their...

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Human Capital Misallocation and Output per Worker Differences: Beyond Cobb-Douglas

Trenczek, Jan; Wacker, Konstantin M. - 2023

Misallocation of human capital across sectors can have substantial negative implications for aggregate output. So far …, the literature examining this type of labor misallocation has assumed a Cobb-Douglas production function. Our paper … substitutable than Cobb-Douglas assumes. Our counterfactual results indicate that human capital misallocation can explain …

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The Urgent Need for an Economics of “Hategoatism”

Payson, Steven - 2019

The word “scapegoat” is defined as “a person made to bear the blame for others,” and similarly, “scapegoatism” refers to “the act or practice of assigning blame or failure to another, as to deflect attention or responsibility away from oneself” (Collins English Dictionary and...

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The role of conflict in sex discrimination: The case of missing girls

Mavisakalyan, Astghik; Minasyan, Anna - 2018

Recent evidence shows that highly skewed sex ratios at birth are observed not only in China and India, but also for a number of countries in the Southeast Europe and South Caucasus - a region that has seen eruptions of conflicts following the collapse of communist regimes. Yet, the role of...

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Social Identity and Perceived Income Adequacy

Goel, Deepti; Deshpande, Ashwini - 2018

Economists are increasingly interested in subjective well-being, but the economic literature on perceptions of income adequacy, which is one of the factors that shapes subjective well-being, is small. Our paper fills this lacuna in the literature. We utilize nationally representative data on...

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Beyond the Stigma of War: Russian Migrants in Kazakhstan's Labour Market

Abdulla, Kanat; Mourelatos, Evangelos - 2024

In this study, we investigate the employers' attitude towards Russian migrants in Kazakhstan's labor market. We conduct a field experiment by sending over 1600 fictitious job applications to real job openings posted on one of the largest job search portals in the country. The job applicants...

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Game of Prejudice – Experiments at the Extensive and Intensive Margin

Dasgupta, Utteeyo; Mani, Subha; Vecci, Joe; Želinský, … - 2020

preferences for discrimination towards the largest minority group in Europe (the Roma) at the intensive margins as well as at the … extensive margins. Our unique experiment design allows us to separate taste-based discrimination from statistical discrimination … and examine the impacts of raising the costs of discrimination in such situations. We find discrimination to be …

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Do Swedish schools discriminate against children with disabilities?

Ahmed, Ali; Hammarstedt, Mats; Karlsson, Karl - 2020

children with these disabilities and that discrimination is most prevalent in private schools. Private schools discriminated …

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